Do you like your vegetables?

[Finnick the Aquacat]

Veggies are tasty, I've always liked a decent handful of them but as I've been entering into adulthood I've been gaining even more of an appreciation for them. The biggest thing I noticed this with so far was with salads, as a kid I was fine with them but they were far from my first choice, but now I enjoy them much more. My work had a summer luncheon at one point last year and along with other food items they had a salad, and the big indicator to me that "ok yeah I'm definitely an adult now" was the fact that I actively chose to take some of the salad along with the other food lol. Not as big on the more bitter leafy greens, but if they got a good salad dressing to go with them I'll still chow down no issue.
Broccoli is a veggie I've always enjoyed, put out some steamed broccoli on my plate (provided you haven't steamed it to the point of becoming mush anyway, my high school did that) and I will demolish it. I'm also rather partial to cauliflower and Brussels sprouts as well. Potatoes are another big one, very versatile veggie there. I'm not big on all methods of cooking potatoes for textural reasons, hash browns and tater tots are ones I pass on for this reason, but taste-wise it's hard to get a potato wrong. For other root veggies, carrots are fine, I can be iffy on them sometimes because of their sweetness but I still have some forms I enjoy them in, and radishes are interesting, I tried them for the first time in the aforementioned work luncheon salad. Beets I didn't like as a kid but I haven't had them in ages so my tastes may have changed, and the other common root veggies I haven't tried yet.
Now that I've started to branch out more with my veggies I'm hoping I can give some less commonly consumed ones a try, in particular I've heard that dandelion crowns (the white bit where the root connects to the greens) can be used like you would an artichoke so I wanna see if I can do something fun with that!

[noahie]

Vegetables are alright, but ones that I like the most would be peas, carrots, broccoli, bell peppers, cauliflower, and spinach. I can think of a bunch of good meals to make out of those vegetables. I've learned as an adult that the way you cook them is super important. If they aren't well-cooked or seasoned, they taste awful. But even then, there are some vegetables I absolutely won't touch like collard greens or kale. Gross!

[wolfkitty42]

I was so, so proud of myself when I realized that caeser salad could be a safe food for me. I've been a picky eater my whole life, and.... yeah, i was excited when while traveling i saw a caeser salad in a cafe and went yum!!! i want that pls!!! eat!!! OuO
here is my edible vegetable list. every single preperation is a different food, fight me.
romaine lettuce -fucifking yummmm very good vessel for cheese and caeser
evil lettuce i dont know the name of my dad gets - not as good because its inconsistent and has spinach mixed in but its okaay
broccoli - steamed is yummy
broccoli - whatever black magic they do to it at a chinese restaurant ohhh my god i dont know but its so tasty i could eat so much of it dudeee
carrots - i miss when i had a good brand of ranch. ngl i miss carrots
avocados - heaven or hell on earth no inbetween
apples - not a vegetable but screw it its a fresh food still i might as well put it here

TL;DR the best vegetable is caeser dressing /hj

[lakes]

avocados - heaven or hell on earth no inbetween

i agree with this
i used to think i hated avocados, but no, turns out they just ripen and then go bad pretty quickly & most restaurants don't have them fresh
i'd suggest seeing if they've softened within 1-4 days, then eating them
don't wait any longer than that or it'll just be bland mush

[wolfkitty42]

definitely agree on that, my mom tends to have a good sense of when an avocado is good (im working on it.....) and most of my bad avocado experiences have been in restaurants. :( theres a sweet spot...

[cinnamuff]

Yeah I love em!!! I could tear through a bowl of steamed or pan seared broccoli anyday LOL
My go tos are spinach, broccoli, carrots, cabbage, bok choy, and potatoes. My absolute favourite has to be broccoli though- when cooked right it's crunchy in all the right ways. Also I love throwing in spinach with scrambled eggs or in a makeshift ramen dish hahaha. Or sometimes I just pan sear it, throw a tiny bit of soy in and eat it. :9

[kringle]

i have a kind of foragers relationship to food so i'll eat most of my veggis raw and out the bag like chips. LOVE a veggie stir fry tho.

i think my go to for snackies are carrots, celery, and spinage. i eill also admittrdly just Eat A Cucumber sometimes buts its been a while since i've had entire cucumbers in my fridge to snack on LOL. im deff a fan of a good crunch texture.

[Còbra!]

My "novophobia" (fear of trying new foods) combined with being very sensitive to certain textures and compositions causes me to not eat any fruits or vegetables. What I do instead of eating those is take multi-vitamin tablets to get the things I need that I otherwise don't get.
It's probably not as good as actually eating vegetables, but given my situation, it's better than nothing...

I also try to remember to take fruit juices, because some of them I do like.